Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, The Wreck Of The Mary Deare 1959 - Director: Michael Anderson
Irrlichter der Grenze
Irrlichter der Grenze
Illustrierte Film-Bühne: Nr.292
L EMPREINTE DU DIEU - Frankreich. 1940
Regie: Leonide Moguy
Darsteller: Pierre Blanchar, Annie Ducaux, Blanchette Brunoy, Jacques Dumesnil, Ginette Leclerc, Pierre Larquey
Deutsche Erstaufführung: 10.12.1948
Die junge Frau eines Schmugglers beginnt während der Haft ihres Mannes ein Verhältnis mit einem begüterten Mann,
dessen vorbildliche Ehe kinderlos blieb. Als aus der Affäre ein Kind erwächst, eskalieren die Ereignisse.
Am Ende sind beide Männer tot und die Frauen finden zueinander, um das Kind gemeinsam aufzuziehen.
Ein gut fotografierter, zwischen Kriminalfilm und Ehemelodram pendelnder Film, in dessen Mittelpunkt das
Verantwortungsbewußtsein für das neugeborene Kind steht.
Gregory Peck Biography
Gregory Peck
born: 05-04-1916
birth place: California, USA
died: 13-06-2003
Peck was born Eldred Gregory Peck. His parents divorced when he was five, and he was brought up by his grandmother.
He studied at Berkeley, where he got the acting bug and changed the focus of his studies. He enrolled in the Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York and debuted on Broadway, after graduation, in Emlyn Williams' stage play 'The Morning Star'.
By 1943, he was in Hollywood, where he debuted in the RKO film 'Days of Glory'.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for 'Keys of the Kingdom' and again for 'The Yearling', for which he won the Golden Globe.
Peck's on-screen persona as the rugged, decent hero was cemented, and he appeared in similar vein in several Westerns in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. He was nominated again for an Academy Award for his roles in 'Gentleman's Agreement' and 'Twelve O’clock High'.
With a string of hits behind him, Peck took the decision to only work in films that interested him, appearing in 'Captain Horatio Hornblower' and 'Moby Dick'. He also worked with Audrey Hepburn on 'Roman Holiday'.
After four nominations, Peck finally won the Oscar for his performance in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.
In the 1970s, he began producing, with 'The Trial of the Catonsville Nine', and 'The Dove', but his acting career waned until he made a comeback in the horror film, 'The Omen', in 1976.
In the 1980s, Peck moved into television, in the mini series 'The Blue and the Gray', and also appeared in the movie 'The Scarlet and the Black'.
Peck has received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and the Medal of Freedom.
Always politically liberal, he was active in charity and political work. He died peacefully, aged 87, with his second wife Veronica by his side, on 12th June 2003.
Gloria Swanson Biography
Gloria Swanson
born: 27-03-1897
birth place: Chicago, USA
died: 04-04-1983
Gloria Swanson was born Gloria Swenson. Her father was in the army, and she had attended more than a dozen schools by her early teens. Finally settling in Chicago, at age sixteen she was hired as an extra at Essanay Studios, where she met actor Wallace Beery.
Three years later, in 1916, she and Beery were married and moved to Hollywood. Beery signed with Mack Sennett's Keystone company, on the condition that Swanson also be given a contract. She started out in a series of romantic comedies, then starred in a number of melodramatic tearjerkers.
In 1919 she joined Cecil B. DeMille's team, and soon rose to major stardom in euphemism-laden bedroom farces. By the mid 1920s, now specializing in drama, she was a reigning Queen of Hollywood, expertly handling the film world's publicity machine to increase her own glamour.
Meanwhile, she divorced Beery in 1919, married and divorced again, then married a marquis. Altogether, she was married six times.
In 1927 she began producing her own films; a year later she was nearly bankrupted by the costs of Erich von Stroheim's production of 'Queen Kelly'. She proved herself capable of both speaking and singing well in the sound era, but her talkies were mostly unsuccessful, and she retired from the screen in 1934.
Throughout the next four decades she appeared in five additional films, the most important of which was 'Sunset Boulevard', in 1950, for which she received her third Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Later, she occasionally appeared on TV talk shows, often promoting health food. In 1971, she starred on Broadway in 'Butterflies Are Free'.
She died in her sleep in April 1983.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)